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Numbers 23 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Yahweh Speaks Through Balaam

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Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:2 - So Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.
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Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5 - Then Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:6 - So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - Then he took up his [fn]discourse and said,

“From Aram Balak has brought me,

Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,

‘Come curse Jacob for me,

And come, denounce Israel!’

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“How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?

And how can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced?

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“For I see him from the top of the rocks,

And I look at him from the hills;

Behold, a people who dwells alone,

And will not be reckoned among the nations.

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“Who can number the dust of Jacob,

Or count the fourth part of Israel?

Let [fn]me die the death of the upright,

And let my end be like his!”

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Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have blessed them repeatedly!”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:12 - And he replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

Balaam’s Discourse

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Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, but you will only see the end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:14 - So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - And he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet Yahweh over there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16 - Then Yahweh met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:17 - So he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:18 - Then he took up his [fn]discourse and said,

“Arise, O Balak, and hear;

Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!

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“God is not a man, that He should lie,

Nor a son of man, that He should repent;

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not establish it?

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“Behold, I have received a command to bless;

When He has blessed, then I cannot revoke it.

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“He has not observed [fn]misfortune in Jacob;

Nor has He seen trouble in Israel;

Yahweh his God is with him,

And the shout of a king is among them.

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“God brings them out of Egypt,

He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

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“For there is no omen against Jacob,

Nor is there any divination against Israel;

At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob

And to Israel, what God has done!

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“Behold, a people rises like a lioness,

And as a lion it lifts itself;

It will not lie down until it devours the prey,

And drinks the blood of the slain.”

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Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:26 - But Balaam replied to Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, ‘Whatever Yahweh speaks, that I must do’?”
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Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be right in the eyes of God that you curse them for me from there.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:28 - So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the [fn]wasteland.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:29 - And Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:30 - And Balak did just as Balaam had said and offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
LSB Footnotes
Lit parable
Lit parable
Lit parable
Lit my soul
Lit my soul
Lit my soul
Lit parable
Lit parable
Lit parable
Or wickedness
Or wickedness
Or wickedness
Or Jeshimon
Or Jeshimon
Or Jeshimon
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